For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

good show

its been 30 years since it came out and roughly 27 since i meant to watch it but it turns out: Ghost in the Shell is a Good Movie, holy shit

At Tech Week in SF, an AI startup screens a torrented and ad-polluted copy of The Social Network, in between the most cursed trailers for the most hellish AI "films" imaginable....and ORB IS ON IT: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/initiating-t...

This is of niche industry interest, but here goes: The digital catalog platform most independent bookstores use to peruse and order new books for their stores (called Edelweiss) has jacked up their prices on publishers to catalog new titles 200-300%. Why does this matter?

last time i bump this but i have now had multiple people say that they've read this and that they've had Thoughts about Cooking because of it which makes me happy. happy 🐝day past, til next time.

happy 🐝 day to me and you alike, today marks the fifteenth time ive made art for you to do with as you please. This time around: a printable or screen readable zine with three recipes for an 8-inch cast iron, which i started thinking of as an intervention in Recipes as Literature

today i am 37 years old, which means its the fifteenth time i have made a birthday gift for you, the internet this year: A Decadent Year, a zine with 3 recipes developed for an 8-inch cast iron skillet download the pdfs (to read online or print) here: beegabberel.itch.io/a-decadent-day

happy october, here are my silly halloween stories about a scarecrow apocalypse on a dying webforum and its companion story about a corn maze apocalypse on a platform for reviewing corn mazes

all the stories mentioned here that ive read are good but Rib is my favorite

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Rivers is an incredible writer and generous soul. Please consider lending them a hand at this awful time, if you're able.

taking precisely one shift during my birthday week off to be around while these cool people are talking. come for the exciting conversation, stay for the exciting conversation; say hi to yr local trans bookseller whose going through it for idk 9 seconds o:)

"The Oakland Review of Books is coming!" it says on our website, and if you haven't noticed, we've started publishing ever-so-slightly-more ambitious things as we ramp up towards really cutting loose. If you'd like to follow along, for the low price of $0 (American), you can get it in your inbox:

"Rows of poplar trees run along canals that are invisible, obscured as they are by dusty reeds from which an occasional heron takes off, trailing its long mosquito legs." Anita Desai has the juice i guess goddamn

been sitting on this loose ranked list of all ~60 books ive read this year so far and it shocking to me that ive 1) read so many absolute bangers this year and 2) genuinely fucked with the upcoming Danielewski harder than Moby Dick. Tom's Crossing really chewed me up so good

not a fanwork so excluding the hashtag but im still fond of my weird post from another anniversary, in which i talk about how that show helped me understand how to both read & run TTRPGs better (& better than anything else has other than doing it.) uninterpretative.blogspot.com/2019/08/hier...

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Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, September 9 – September 16: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...

If you want to understand the meaning of "crime," you could do worse than contemplate these two articles

i havent touched a demo basically since i was running Playdate Pop Up but uh. Lumines Arise feels very good.

i was thinking about blogging so i was skimming my blog and i genuinely don't know if this thing i wrote in 2019 is a description of a real season of television or if i fully made it up? is stalker a real tv show. if it is i guess i know why i hated that season?

two hours twenty-ish into SFULTRA's first episode about Burroughs and I'm so invested I'm internally hollering about how good Nisi Shawl's The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox is re: Kerouac sucking allunits.libsyn.com/right-where-...

cmrn's project rules and this six hour podcast is genuinely one of the best podcasts ive ever heard, and basically all i do outside of work is still listen to podcasts

coworker wrote a very long blurb/very short article about how it's basically impossible to get David Goodis' Dark Passage physically until someone helps the LoA to 75k as a specific Guardian, which if nothing else convinced me to get him to read the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org

im two hours in this, chopped up by work, and its full of really good conversations im curious what they do with in the back half

the teen with a DSLR who took a pic of my "epic" Ranged Touch Investigates The Cascade shirt is THE Fourth Host Of Shelved By Genre

I Believe Michael Could Fix Garfield

Embed with Games, my gonzo style travelogue from 2014 covering Blendo Games, @ellaguro.bsky.social, @harvey1966.bsky.social et al is available for pay what you want in this bundle!

playing through the UFO 50 postgame stuff and i accidentally input EXEC-SAP2 into the terminal and it took me too Bug Hunter? this is probably something known in the discord or w/e but is not a code i can find in any of the search engine-facing collections of terminal codes

I fell asleep before it went live but here's my eulogy for Hulk Hogan. Only it's not entirely about Hogan, but about us. flaminghydra.com/issue-367/

today a teen (after asking consent) took a photo on her DSLR of my Ranged Touch Investigates The Cascade t-shirt and described it as "epic" while I was at work, which confused the hell out of me but was very sweet

8 hours to go on the @strangehorizons.bsky.social fund drive - can you help us reach our 25k stretch goal and fund a special 25th anniversary issue? Some great new perks have been added too, courtesy of Interzone 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

There are 2 days left in our Fund Drive. We're getting closer to Fungi in SFF 🍄 We also really want to celebrate our 25th year with our second stretch goal: ✨an anniversary edition✨ You still have time to donate! And if you already have, we hope you can still help us spread the word!

Our crowdfunding campaign comes to a close soon and it would be so cool for us to hit our stretch goal of $150k. Share with a pal? givebutter.com/coyotemedia

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At a moment when the problems our world is facing feel insurmountable, I found a lot of inspiration in this. My friend and reporter Allison Herrera sat down with recently freed Leonard Peltier, one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the U.S.

i think this is actually good recipe writing prisonjournalismproject.org/2025/06/05/h...

Stretch Goals: $22,500, we will publish a Fungi in SFF Special Issue $25,000, there will be a 25th anniversary edition to celebrate our quarter-century milestone! $27,500, we will publish a special issue on SFF and the Working Class $30,000, we will be able to commission more artwork next year

BASE GOAL: FULLY FUNDED! Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far! BUT we're not done yet! We have some juicy stretch goals just waiting to be unlocked!

new kesha is good

Kickstarter UPDATE! You can now choose to support the publication of a poem, story, review or artwork as an add-on, so you don't have to choose whether to get a cool signed book or support a piece of work. You also don't have to stick to supporting just one!

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, June 17 – 22: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...

The @bayareacurrent.bsky.social launch is even better than expected. Check out this fantastic article on the "abandoned" Greyhound bus station in Oakland. bayareacurrent.com/why-venture-...

As the world burns, a few of us are making an Oakland Review of Books. We don’t have money, but why not? We’re moving slowly. We're trying not to break things. But we’re trying to imagine: what if Oakland were enough and we cared enough to look? www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org

Hey, I think this episode of our new games podcast is pretty good

oh i absolutely fielded a call about that fake jensen huang book at work around that time. i dug deep enough to find a listing for a kids book with that name self published in new zealand i want to say? which was almost certainly AI itself, now that i connect the dots.